The Importance of Government Lying

I'm just interested to know why you sat on the Pentagon papers for quite a while before ultimately leaking them to the newspapers in 1971. Some people would say if you'd acted sooner they might have had more impact on the war. When you read the Pentagon papers did you feel a real sense of anger that successive administrations hadn't really told the truth about Vietnam? I was very used to lying this is rather egregious but when I discovered from the early days of the Pentagon papers that we've been lying from our involvement in Vietnam from the beginning I found it shocking. If you can't tolerate government lying you can't be in any government at a high foreign policy staff position for a week and I've